Hiding input password

Im trying to make an login menu in Visual studio 6.0. I want the password to be typed in as '*' , so you cant se the real password on the screen. Im building a MS-DOS interface. Here is the code we allready have tried and it didn't work..

#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>

main ()
{
int c=0;
char buffer[20];
char a;
char n[11];

cout << "Name: ";
cin >> n;
cout << "Password: ";

while(a != '\n')
{
a=getch();
buffer[c]=a;
cout<<"*";
c++;
}

cout<<buffer;
return 0;
}

You can't use old type I/O, (getch), and stream I/O, (cout, cin), on the same channel at the same time without problems. Use one or the other.

It is always better to continue these threads on the board rather than take it to e-mail. First, I am not in the office that often, you were lucky, second, nobody else learns anything!

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

main ()
{
  int c=0;
  char buffer[20];
  char a;
  char n[11];
  bool Continue = 1;

  printf("Name: ");
  scanf("%s",&n);
  printf("Password: ");

  while (Continue)
  {
    a=getch();
    if (a == 13)
    {
      Continue = 0;
      buffer[c] = 0;
    }
    else
    {
      buffer[c]=a;
      printf("*");
      c++;
    }
  };
  printf("\n%s\n",buffer);
 
  return 0;
}

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This is a bit nasty as I didn't have a lot of time, but basically works with VC6.